Well, I don’t watch it anymore, since Comedy Fucking Central switched the reruns to 5:30. My Mom and I used to watch the previous night’s show at 7:00, call each other and chat about this-and-that; nice nightly ritual. She and I are both in bed by 11:00; neither of us are home at 5:30; and coordinating our VCRs and tape-watching is too damn much trouble every night. So they’ve lost at least two viewers, now . . .
Eve, are you cranky because you have a widdle coldie woldie?
Sigh… I haven’t seen the Daily Show in about two years. How much does not having cable suck? A lot.
Great show though. Funny stuff. Lewis Black kind of hurts my ears, though I’ve got nothing against him. Love Mo Rocca, Carrell and Colbert.
Miss them so. Silly network TV.
I think that Stewart is more anti-Bush than anything. He still makes jokes about the 2000 election. Sure, Stewart is left leaning, but judging from his interview with Bill O’Reilly, who also interviewed Ben Stiller, Janine Garofalo, Stephen Baldwin, and Rosie O’Donnell, he doesn’t necessarily have a defined political platform. O’Reilly was trying to focus on how Hollywood celebrities use their fame to push their political agendas. Of those interviewed, Garofalo and O’Donnell seemed to respond most clearly, while Stiller, Stewart and Baldwin (there because Alec wouldn’t appear) stammered a lot and said little of substance, which is easy to do if you’re not prepared for O’Reilly’s smarminess and badgering.
Does anyone remember the MTV show You Wrote It, You Watch It featuring Jon Stewart and members of The State? I still laugh thinking of one viewer who related her nightmare in which the B-52’s Fred Schneider was stalking her. One scene showed her sitting in a public restroom, looking under the divider and seeing Schneider’s dancing feet as he sang “Everybody’s taking a poo-poo!”
I have been watching The Daily Show since the start, as I enjoyed Craig Kilborn’s wisecracks from his Sportscenter days. I thought it was cool that Husker Du/Sugar singer/guitarist Bob Mould wrote and performed the theme song (and even sang “Little Drummer Boy” with Kilborn during the Christmas season :)).
I miss people like Lizz Winstead, Beth Littleford, Brian Unger, John Bloom (a/k/a Joe Bob Briggs), A. Whitney Brown, Vance DeGeneres etc. The two Steves are good, and Nancy Walsh and Mo Rocca are okay, but some of the new correspondents just don’t do it for me. Perhaps it is because, as others have indicated, the field reports just aren’t as good as they used to be. They seem to be focusing less on them and more on what’s going on in the studio. This results in it being more script oriented, whereas with the field reports, some of it seemed more ad-libbed.
I like Lewis Black; I saw his stand up appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien before his Daily Show gig, and he was really good. Frank DiCaro is also pretty funny with his movie reviews.
Does Dave Attell still appear on the show, or is he just doing Insomniac?
Lewis black is funny, but only in doses. The Daily Show suits him perfectly, because he gets about 2-4 minutes. I especially love him finding the beginning and end of the world. I think it was in Houston (?), but the joke was that there was a Starbucks ACROSS THE STREET FROM A STARBUCKS! Now that was funny. And his intro is pretty clever too (Back in Black). But too much Lewis is not funy, case in point his Stand-up Special. Way too long for me to put up with Lewis Black, even with the commercials.
But on The Daily Show, he is pretty funny.
Damn, I’ve been trying to remember where I saw that Fred Schnieder sketch for years! Thanks FNRFR!